Wire fence.



v PATENTED MAY 2, 1905.

E. F. SHELLABERGER.

I WIRE FENCE. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 30, 1905.

UNTTED STATES Patented. May 2, 1905.

PATENT Trice.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,954, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed January 30, 1905. Serial No. 243,327.

To a, 1071,0771. it may concern:

Be it known that I,EDWARD F. SHELLAB ER- eun, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dekalb, in the county of Dekalb and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a sectional fence embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a portion of one of the cross-wires or pickets. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, the coil of the longitudinal strand being shown in position engaging the picket and its continuation shown in section. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the knots constituting the union between the longitudinal strands and pickets. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, but showing the loop portion of the picket member bent over laterally or flatwise against the longitudinal strand; and Fig. 6 is another view similar to Fig. 4, in which the loop portion of the picket is flattened down in its end plane to form a proximately T-shaped head.

In making this fence fabric I preferably first form independently the picket members 1, using a suitable machine or tools whereby loops 2 are formed at regular intervals apart. These loops are so shaped as to form more or less enlarged head portions 3, connected with the unbent or main body of the picket by means of neck portions 4, the portions which form the neck being preferably brought into bearing with each other, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, et seq. With the pickets thus formed a plurality of longitudinal strands 5 are eX- tended across the same, one in register with each knot position of the pickets, and by means of a suitable tool or twister-head said longitudinal strands are given a single turn around the neck portion of the loop of each picket, the longitudinal wires being drawn taut, so as to make the coils 6 embrace the neck portions of the loops snugly, as shown clearly in Figs. 4, 5, and 6. After the longitudinal strands have been thus united with the crosswires the fabric may be considered as finished, or I may by means of any suitable tool bend over the more or less projecting heads or loops 2 of the pickets, so that they lie flat against the longitudinal Wires, as shown in the modication Fig. 5, or I may by means of a suitable tool crush down the outer portions of the loops in the same plane with the main body of the loop, thus forming a proximately T-shaped head 2, as shown in Fig. 6. The object, of course, of bending or crushing down the loops is to make the fabric more smooth, which may or may not be desirable.

I claim as my invention A wire fabric comprising a series of transverse stay-wires each having integral loops formed of laterally-deflected portions of the body of the Wire, said loops having enlarged head portions and brought toward each other at the point of juncture with the main body to form neck portions, and longitudinal strands connecting said cross-wires, each longitudinal strand provided with a coil or turn completely encircling the neck portion of the loop of each stay-wire at the points of intersection.

EDWARD F. SHELLABERGER.

Witnesses:

ALBERT H. GRAVES, FREDERICK G. Goonwnv. 

